Poor pinball

Oh make it stop, please make the bad man stop.

My eyes my eyes I can't take it.

I am meltingggggggggggg!!

Ok the last one was not so relevant.

Man, I don't know if it is just your camera you are using but that machine looks pretty gross. All those greasy fingerprints . . . I'm not a germaphobe or what have you but I might have to put on gloves to play that machine . . .

By keeping their pins grungy and in disrepair is Disney's way of showing people that pinball is a lousy way to spend money. They have other ideas on where you should drop your coin.

That plaque has been gone since it was in Flynn's. I am sure there is someone somewhere with that trying to pass off a normal Tron as an LE.

As for IJ, that game has been essentially on route since 1995, and gets the crap played out of it. I am surprised it looks as good as it does. I would love to see Disney pay to have it restored, but the fact is it still pulls in quarters w/o being restored.

Ouch!
well, Good news for LE owners. Tron limited run is now x/399

Was that you that got high score #3. The score doesn't match the initials.

When was it in Flynn's? The only pin I ever saw there was Whirlwind.

I saw Cyclone, then Tron, then Whirlwind. Not sure of the exact year, but it was there.

Must have been a different Disneyland. In October 2010 Flynn's arcade opened in Anaheim, and Whirlwind was there. Last time I went about 6 months ago, Whirlwind hadn't moved. The machines originally came from a bar/arcade in downtown Fullerton called The Slidebar. The arcade was The Reagan Years, which is now where bands rehearse.

Nope, not a different Disney. First time I went when Flynns opened it was Whirlwind. Second time was Cyclone, 3rd and 4th were Tron. The last time I was there in Flynn's was last Feb, and it was Tron.

My GF got mad that I mentioned both times that it was nuts such a high-dollar game was out on route.

Whatevers there now I don't know. What I do know is that Electronica and Flynn's arcade were pretty fn cool, don't you think?

I LOVED Flynn's. Got a bunch of tokens from there. Would love to have a mini-version of the sign, but using my name instead in Neon. Looked into it, and because of the amount of tubes sign would be HUGE.

I haven't been to the mad tea party thing yet. Last time I was there was on a weekday and it was for the halloween haunt thing and my 1st time to club 33 and 1901.

We had season passes for years, but when my daughter turned 14, she was over it. Just in time,too!
Because the So Cal pass we used to get for around a hundred bucks, is now three. It was a lot of fun for a while though, especially when they did the Rockin' Space Mountain with the Red Hot Chili Peppers version of Higher Ground blasting.

Never had a pass, but knew/know enough people in the company to get in free at least for a day or two when we go.

What I REALLY miss there are the old arcades! When I was a kid Frontierland had a pretty good bank of the old 'shoot the bear' games, Teddi Barra's Swingin arcade game had some re-theme mini-golfs, and the penny arcade was an actual arcade.

Wish the park kept some of those instead of more space for run of the mill crap that is in most of their stores now.

Over the years they got rid of pretty much anything that didn't involve spending more money or standing in line. Which is why Flynn's was so cool. I remember all those you mentioned, and the full blown arcade they had in the 70's when you got off Space Mountain.

The starcade was awesome. Upstairs had pins all along the back wall and were in decent shape. Downstairs had great games too.

That's nasty. Looks like the floor of a peep show.

For the right price I'd buy that, it looks like hammered shit but it has potential. The right price, not the NIB HEP price!

You didn't do it any favors with that first pic. I'm sure you didn't do it intentionally, but that's a horrible pic. Don't quit your day job. d

That's the mentality the collector side of the hobby needs to get away from. The game is getting 'hammered' on location, and you want to take it off location? How exactly is that good for the hobby?

So the routed pinball has fingerprints on the chrome (that picks up finger prints like crazy?) and everyone thinks it looks like it is in horrible shape? This is what pins are made to do - make money on location.

I don't get it - what is the problem?

Where exactly were these pins located at Disneyland?

I am in this camp; not that the pic is the greatest but I see no obvious heinous playfield wear, even on the shooter lane and scoop.

It is certainly not blown out as far as I can tell...

I was expecting something along the lines of that ACDC that had the playfield that looked like it has been belt sanded in places. Based upon these pics only, this seems more like an anal collector freak out than something someone should be concerned about.

I was at Disneyland, and they had awesome pinball tables, but they were SMUDGY OMG.

First world problems at their finest.

Wanna hear my Disneyland horror story? I bought a diet coke (in a hopefully sealed bottle from a Vendor) and was actually Vanilla coke that had been factory mislabelled! For $3 or whatever I paid that was a real horror show . What else was I going to use to choke down my $3 (not kidding) really big Disney pickle?

Starcade was there when I went there for grad night in 1993.

The famous IJ was/is in a gift shop in Frontierland. I didn't see it last time I was there, though, however, that was around 5 years ago.

No, that's in the Indiana Jones Outpost, directly across from the Indiana Jones Adventure ride entrance.

NEWSFLASH: Chrome shows fingerprints like a bitch

It's not good for the hobby for a collectors machine to sit out of order either. If it gets bought then they will replace it. When retailers see they can still sell a routed hammered machine for almost what they paid for it, after making money on location, more people will want that business model. That's good for the hobby!!!

Noobs buying hammered routed machines for almost NIB pricing is good for the hobby?

Waaaaa? Color me a confused chimp

(I know what you meant at the end of the day, this would hopefully get more machines on location, but this still sounds kinda funny.... )

I'd pay 1500 for that beat up Tron LE

I don't have any pics, but we just got back from Disneyland Paris. The little arcade in Disney Village had a Tron Pro, and it was pretty much beat to crap. It had the tron arcade machine (I believe that's a mod, but not sure), basically hanging by a thread in 3 pieces over the playfield. Not sure if repair techs are overworked, nonexistent, or what. Either way, I suppose they look at it as a moneymaker and could care less what happens to it after it turns a profit, whereas some of us get all bent out of shape when a machine is neglected.

Was it speaking in French (do Sterns even have French)?

I'm pretty sure it was in English, but I was watching 4 kids and waiting for the wife...and peeking over the shoulder of the guy playing so who knows A bunch of driving vids, couple air hockey machines, couple kiddie rides, and 2 pins (Tron Pro and Rolling Stones) tucked into the back corner.

Tron and Cyclone are on the second floor of the building to the west of Space Mountain. You can see them when you are in line for SM.

"Lightly Routed" (sarcasm)

Starcade is still there, but the upstairs portion has been closed for a long, long time. Not too sure when, I think it was around 95 or so when it shut down, but it may have been 98, when the 'new' tomorrowland rolled out.

Poor tron le someone should buy it reproduce the plaque do it up clean it and hope they could bring it back to life
I always hate it when people just bash machines about and destroy them

I think this is great. they are money making pieces of equipment and should be out there doing their thing. If they earn, they ops will buy more. route them. raise demand, then sell the routed ones. any machine can be brought back.

And they did a custom crate job on the IJ last time i was there. and it was in beautiful condition. They had it set up in the IJ gift shop accross from the ride.

The ij does look epic it really looks the part I don't mind saying the cab looks nicer

There are pics on this board of the IJ from less than a month ago. I was there less than a month ago. Yes, there is still major flipper wear on the playfield, but it is otherwise in great shape.

Other than the Tron photos having a flash which makes all the fingerprint smudges get highlighted... how is the game beat up?